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vjm4democracy.bsky.social
Canadian. Sometimes grumpy. Living, playing and working as a grateful settler in the unceded territory of the shíshálh people.🇨🇦 Notice: Canada is not for sale. Period.
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The only thing that matters to them is loyalty. Competence is irrelevant.

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“SpaceX just can’t catch a break, can it? After nine test flights, they still haven’t figured out how to prevent Starship from blowing up or disintegrating.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income. Does that sound fair to you?

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“Data that is collected for one reason should not be repurposed for other uses,” Ms. Xia said. “Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s time for decent, caring, honest Americans to say “enough is enough”. Stand up or be vilified by the rest of the free world.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Doug Ford’s Bill 5 hands sweeping power to override local govts, workers’ rights & environmental protections. It’s MAGA-style politics—and CBC is one of the few institutions exposing it. CBC holds power to account. That’s why it’s under attack. Learn more: r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Wordle 1,443 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

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"Musk has used his time in the government to end investigations into his companies, score government contracts, and get the government to press countries to accept his Starlink communications network as a condition of tariff negotiations." Heather Cox Richardson Corruption on an astronomic level.

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Tax the billionaires! Cancel student loans! #Impeach47

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Not @repjasmine.bsky.social truth-telling on Republican Rep. Mike Flood 🔥 “Especially with your homeboy talking about, he didn’t know what was in the bill. That was absolutely in the judiciary markup that came out. So I knew about it and we fought about it, but OK, whatever.”

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"Customs and Border Protection has mouth-swabbed 133,000 migrant children and teenagers to collect their DNA and uploaded their genetic data into a national criminal database used by local, state, and federal law enforcement." Children. They have CHILDREN's DNA. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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open.substack.com/pub/charliea... Trump was pissed that Five Eyes tracked Russian interference in the 2016 election that got him elected. In retaliation, he wanted to expel Canada from the network.

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